MOORE, Okla. -- What appeared to be a child lost on the streets of Moore ended up being something much more sinister and led to police arresting the 6-year-old's parents.

On Sept. 21, Moore police responded to a house in a neighborhood after a resident called police about an unusual and upsetting discovery.

"He was kind of wandering in and out of the traffic and roadway," Clint Byley with the Moore Police Department said. "The child told the resident and us he had ran away from home due to abuse, alleged abuse, that had been occurring in the home."

Police noticed an open wound on the child's foot that was infected and unhealed.

"Officers witnessed visible scars, injuries, on his feet," Byley said.

The parents then showed up at the scene because they had noticed their child was missin

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